XIII Roman Emperor (98-117 AD) who rebuilt Rome, Trajan’s Forum and expanded the empire, dies from edema at 63
- 378 Flavius Valens, Emperor of Byzantium (364-78), dies in the Battle of Adrianople at 50
- 803 Irene, Byzantine Empress and wife of Emperor Leo IV, dies
- 1048 Pope Damasus II [Poppo] dies in Rome, after reigning for only 23 days
- 1107 Horikawa, 73rd Emperor of Japan (1087-1107), dies at 28
- 1173 Najm ad-Din Ayyub, Kurdish soldier and father of Saladin (1st Sultan of Egypt and Syria), dies after a horse riding accident
- 1250 King Eric IV of Denmark (1241-1250), beheaded after being betrayed by his brother (b. 1216)
- 1420 Pierre d’ailly [Peter de Alliaco], French theologist and cardinal, dies
- 1449 Walter Hungerford, English soldier, diplomat and influential politician (fought with Henry V at Agincourt), dies at 78 [1]
- 1516 Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (Garden of Earthly Delights), dies at 66
- 1534 Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
- 1601 Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
- 1613 Giovanni Righi, Italian composer, dies at 36
- 1634 Pieter de Jode I, Flemish publisher of engravings, dies (b. 1573)
- 1634 William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
- 1652 John Dirksz Both, Dutch landscape painter and etcher, dies at about 37
- 1668 Francois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64
- 1672 Jose Ximenez, Spanish composer, dies at 70
- 1710 Gabriel Schutz, German composer, dies at 77
- 1720 Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
- 1727 Johann Philipp Treiber, German composer dies at 52
- 1738 Pierre Drevet, French engraver, dies at 75
- 1744 James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (George Frideric Handel) (b. 1673)
- 1763 Jan Althuysen, Frisian vicar and poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47
- 1806 Louis Ferdinand, Prussian prince and a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, dies at 33
- 1816 Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer, dies at 44
- 1828 Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher and critic, dies at 62
- 1829 Edward Tiffin, British-American land surveyor, and politician (1st Governor of Ohio, 1803-07; US Senator from Ohio, 1807-09), dies at 63
- 1835 Claus Nielsen Schali, Danish violinist and composer, dies at 78
- 1837 Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
- 1848 Frederick Marryat, English captain and author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies
- 1854 Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony (1836-54), dies after falling in front of a horse at 57
- 1862 Charles S. Winder, American military officer and Confederate Brigadier General (US Army, 1850-61; Confederate Army, 1861-62), killed in the Battle of Cedar Mountain Virginia at 32
- 1862 Joseph Bennett Plummer, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 42 or 46
- 1886 Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, and public servant, dies at 76
- 1888 Charles Cros, French inventor and poet (Le Hareng Saur), dies at 45
- 1888 Isaac Strauss, French violinist, conductor and composer, dies at 82
- 1890 Eduard von Bauernfeld, Austrian comedic playwright, dies at 88
- 1892 Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling), dies at 71
- 1897 Samuel McGowan, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 77
- 1898 Gardner Quincy Colton, American lecturer who was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic in dentistry, dies at 84
- 1899 Edward Frankland, British structural chemist who co-discovered helium and developed the theory of valence, dies on holiday in Norway at 74
- 1902 Moritz Szeps, Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher, dies at 66
- 1904 Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59
- 1910 Huo Yuanjia, Chinese martial artist (mizongy), dies at 42
- 1911 John Gates (“Bet-a-million” Gates), American inventor and industrialist who established the market for barbed wire fencing, dies following an unsuccessful operation to remove a throat tumor at 56
- 1914 Roque Saenz Pena, Argentine politician and lawyer (President of Argentina 1910-14), dies in office at 63
- 1916 Lily Braun [Amalie von Kretschmann], German feminist writer (Im Schatten Titanen), and socialist politician, dies from complications of a stroke at 51
- 1919 Ernst Haeckel, German biologist (Causes of Evolution) and philosopher (Social Darwinism), dies at 85
- 1919 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian opera composer and librettist (I Pagliacci; Zazà), dies at 62
- 1924 Ko Vis [Jacob Pieter Vis], Dutch industrialist and founder of the Royal Dutch Salt Industry, dies at 66 [1]
- 1928 Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (1907-18), dies at 71
- 1929 Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71
- 1932 John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician and founder of the Fields Medal, dies after a three-month illness at 69
- 1936 Joseph Lincoln Steffens, American muckraker and investigative journalist (Shame of the Cities), dies at 70
- 1938 Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (African cultures), dies at 65
- 1942 Edith Stein, German philosopher and Discalced Carmelite nun (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), dies at 50 [1]
- 1944 Felix Nussbaum, German surrealist painter (Widerstandskunst), murdered at Auschwitz Concentration Camp at 39
- 1945 Harry Hillman, American athlete (Olympic gold 400m, 200/400m hurdles 1904; silver 400m hurdles 1908), dies of coronary thrombosis at 63
- 1946 Bert Vogler, South African cricket all-rounder (15 Tests, 64 wickets, BB 7/94, 2 x 50; Natal, Transvaal; MCC), dies from lobar pneumonia at 69
- 1947 Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist and authority on arachnida and myriapoda, dies at 84 [1] [2]
- 1948 Hugo Boss, German clothing manufacturer, Nazi party member, and war profiteer, dies from complications of a tooth abscess at 63 [1]
- 1949 Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (father of modern educational psychology), dies at 74
- 1949 Harry Davenport, American actor and director (Her Unborn Child, My Sin), dies at 83
- 1955 Marion Eugene Bauer, American composer, dies at 57
- 1957 Carl Clauberg, German Nazi doctor (gynecologist, specializing in mass sterilization and other experiments on humans at Auschwitz concentration camp), dies at 58
- 1958 Felipe Boero, Argentine composer, dies at 74
- 1959 Emil František Burian, Czech author and composer, dies at 55
- 1960 Bernard Ogilvie Dodge, American botanist and pioneer researcher on heredity in fungi, dies at 88
- 1961 Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. Army general (WWII) and head of CIA (1950-52), dies at 75
- 1962 Lowell Stockman, American politician, (US Representative from Oregon, 1943-53), dies at 61
- 1965 Creighton Hale, Irish actor (Gorilla Man, Way Down East), dies at 76
- 1966 Gösta Nystroem, Swedish composer, dies at 75
- 1967 Anton Walbrook [Adolf Wohlbrook], Austrian actor (Laura, I Accuse), dies of a heart attack at 66
- 1967 Joe Orton, British actor and dramatist (Prick Up Your Ears), is murdered by his partner Kenneth Halliwell at 34
- 1969 Abigail Folger, American coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered by the Manson family at 25
English physicist who discovered pion (pi-meson), a subatomic particle (Nobel 1950), dies at 65
- 1969 George Preston Marshall, American Pro Football HOF team owner (Washington Redskins 1933-69), dies at 72
- 1969 Jay Sebring, American hair stylist, murdered by Manson family at 35
- 1969 Robert Lehman, American banker (Lehrman Brothers) and arts benefactor (Robert Lehman Wing at the Met Museum of Art), dies at 77
- 1969 Steven Parent, American student, murdered by the Manson family at 18
- 1969 Voyteck Freykowski, Polish writer, murdered by the Manson family at 32
- 1972 Ernst von Salomon, German writer (Kette Der Tausend Kraniche), dies at 69
- 1972 Richard Elsasser, American composer and organist, dies at 45
- 1973 Charlie Daniels, American swimmer (Olympic gold 220yd, 440yd, 4x50yd freestyle 1904, 100m freestyle 1908), dies at 88
- 1973 Dean Corll, American serial killer (Houston mass murders), fatally shot by an accomplice at 33
- 1974 Bill Chase, American jazz-rock trumpet player and bandleader (Chase), dies in a plane crash at 39
- 1976 Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet and novelist, dies at 65
- 1976 Max Vredenburg, Dutch composer and music critic, dies at 72 [1]
- 1977 Edward Chapman, British actor (Things to Come, Promoter, Rembrandt), dies at 75
- 1977 George Kenney, American Air Force General (Commander of South West Pacific Area, 1942-45), dies at 88
- 1978 James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (1949 Pulitzer-Guard of Honor), dies at 74
- 1978 Johan Daisne [Herman Thiery], Belgian writer (Lago Maggiore), dies at 66
- 1979 Allan Frank, American actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64
- 1979 Raymond Washington, American gangster, founder of Los Angeles gang the Crips, murdered in drive-by shooting at 25
- 1979 Walter O’Malley, American Baseball HOF executive (owner Brooklyn/LA Dodgers 1950-79), dies of congestive heart failure at 75
- 1980 Elliott Nugent, American director and actor, dies at 83
- 1980 Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies in a plane crash at 41
- 1980 Philip Lee, Australian cricket all-rounder (2 Tests, 5 wickets; South Australia), dies at 75
- 1982 Alexandre Alexeieff, Russian-French filmmaker (pinscreen animation) and artist, dies at 81
- 1985 Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league fullback (37 Tests; NSW 27 games; South Sydney; RL “Immortal”) and coach (Australia 29 Tests, South Sydney), dies at 58
- 1986 Jef Scherens, Belgian track cyclist (World C’ships gold sprint 1932-37, 47), dies at 77
- 1987 Kees de Galan, Dutch economist, dies at 55
- 1988 Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and surrealist poet, dies at 83
- 1990 Dorothy Appleby, American actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express), dies at 84
- 1990 Joe Mercer, English soccer midfielder (5 caps; Everton, Arsenal) and manager (Manchester City, Aston Villa, England 1974), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 76
- 1991 Corrie Hartong, Dutch dance pioneer, dies at 85
- 1992 Christopher Todd [Todd Wangberg], American performer, dies of AIDS at 30
- 1992 Jan van Baal, Dutch anthropologist and governor of Dutch New Guinea, dies (b. 1909)
- 1992 Patrick Devlin, English judge and legal philosopher, dies at 86
- 1992 Thomas J. McIntyre, American politician (Sen-NH, 1963-79), dies at 77
- 1992 William Russell [Russell William Wagner], American violinist, modern composer (Fugue for Eight Percussion Instruments), and musicologist (Oh, Mister Jelly), dies at 87
- 1994 Clarence Ford, American jazz and R&B clarinet and saxophone player, dies at 64
- 1994 Mien van ‘t Sant, Dutch author (Mieke serial), dies at 93
- 1994 Toby Rowland, American theatrical manager (London), dies at 77
American rock and bluegrass guitarist, singer-songwriter (Grateful Dead – “Uncle John’s Band”; “Ripple”; “Brokedown Palace”), and painter, dies of a heart attack at 53
- 1995 John Schofield, English BBC journalist, shot to death reporting in Croatia at 29
- 1995 Willem Noordhoek, Dutch photographer, dies at 78
- 1996 Frank Whittle, English RAF engineer air officer and inventor of the turbojet engine, dies at 89 [1]
- 1996 Kenneth Fleetwood, English fashion designer (Hardy Amies, dressed Queen Elizabeth II), dies at 65
- 1996 Ruth Holland, British journalist (BMJ), dies in the Watford rail crash at 54
- 1997 Robert Satanowski, Polish opera conductor and general, dies at 79
- 2000 Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician and leader of Egypt’s Wafd Party, dies at 88 [1]
- 2000 John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist (Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994, for game theory), and educator (University of California, Berkeley, 1964-90), dies of a heart attack at 80 [1]
- 2000 Nicholas Markowitz, American teenager kidnapped and murdered by Jesse James Hollywood at 15
- 2002 Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson), dies at 49
- 2002 Peter Neville, British anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist, dies at 69
- 2003 Chester Ludgin, American operatic baritone (New York City Opera, 1957-91; San Francisco Opera, 1962-85), dies of cancer at 78 [1]
- 2003 Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (White Nights; Taps), dies of liver cancer at 57
- 2003 Jacques Deray, French film director known for “He Died with His Eyes Open”, dies at 74
- 2003 Ray Harford, English soccer manager (Fulham, Luton Town, Wimbledon, Blackburn Rovers, WBA, QPR), dies from lung cancer at 58
- 2004 David Raksin, American composer renown for his work in film and TV (Laura; Modern Times), dies at 92
- 2004 Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (b. 1908)
- 2004 Tony Mottola, American jazz guitarist, dies at 86
- 2005 Colette Besson, French 400m runner (Olympic gold 1968), dies at 59 [1]
- 2005 Judith Rossner, American novelist (“Looking for Mr. Goodbar”; “August”), dies at 70
- 2005 Matthew McGrory, American actor (Big Fish) known for being worlds’s tallest actor at 7 ft 6 in, dies of natural causes at 32
- 2006 James van Allen, American physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts), dies at 91
- 2006 Philip E. High, English sci-fi author, dies at 92
- 2007 Joe O’Donnell, American documentary photographer and photojournalist, dies at 85
- 2007 Tetsuzo Akutsu, Japanese surgeon who built the first artificial heart, dies at 84
- 2008 Bernie Mac, American comedian and actor (The Bernie Mac Show, Ocean’s Eleven), dies of cardiac arrest at 50
- 2008 Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer, dies at 66
- 2009 John Quade [John William Saunders III], American character actor (Every Which Way But Loose, The Sting), dies of natural causes at 71
- 2010 Ted Stevens, American politician (U.S. Senator from Alaska, 1968-2009), dies at 86
- 2013 Eduardo Falú, Argentine folk music guitarist and composer, dies at 90
- 2013 Johnny Logan, American baseball shortstop (World Series 1957 Boston / Milwaukee Braves; MLB All Star 1955, 57, 58, 59²), dies of a kidney infection at 86
- 2014 Edwin “Ed” Nelson, American actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider), dies of heart failure at 85
- 2014 Michael Brown, American shooting victim whose death provoked nationwide protests and civil unrest, shot dead by white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson at 18
- 2015 David Nobbs, English comedic writer (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin), dies at 80
- 2015 Frank Gifford, American College-Pro Football HOF halfback (USC; 6 × First-team All-Pro, 8 × Pro Bowl; NY Giants) and broadcaster (ABC Monday Night Football), dies at 84
- 2016 Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist (New York, London), dies at 80
- 2016 Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, British peer and its 3rd richest Britain, dies at 64
- 2017 Aili Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter, dies at 86
- 2017 Al McCandless, American Republican politician (Rep-R-CA 1983-95), dies at 90
- 2017 Marián Varga, Slovak progressive rock keyboardist, organist, and composer (Prúdy; Collegium Musicum), dies at 70
- 2020 Martin Birch, British sound engineer (Fleetwood Mac; Deep Purple) and record producer (Whitesnake; Iron Maiden), dies at 71 [1]
- 2021 Alex Cord [Alexander Viespi], American actor (Brotherhood; Fire; Street Asylum; Airwolf), dies at 88
- 2021 Bob Jenkins, American television and radio sports announcer (IndyCar & NASCAR telecasts ESPN/ABC, NBC Sports), dies from brain cancer at 73
- 2021 Patricia Hitchcock, British-American actress (Strangers on a Train), dies at 93
- 2022 Alberto Orzan, Italian soccer defender (4 caps; Udinese, Fiorentina), dies at 91
- 2022 Darryl Hunt, British celtic-rock bassist (The Pogues – “Fairytale of New York”, “I Love You Till the End”), dies at 72
- 2022 Ingemar Erlandsson, Swedish soccer defender (69 caps; Malmö FF 258 games), dies at 64
- 2022 Issey Miyake, Japanese avant-garde fashion designer, dies at 84 [1]
- 2022 John Banham, British businessman, director-general CBI, dies at 81
- 2022 Raymond Briggs, British children’s book author and illustrator (The Snowman; Fungus the Bogeyman), dies at 88
- 2022 Rudi Koertzen, South African cricket umpire who officiated in 108 Tests 1992-2010; ODIs 209; T20Is 14, dies in a car accident at 73
- 2023 (Jaime Royal) “Robbie” Robertson, Canadian-Mohawk singer-songwriter and rock guitarist (The Band – “The Weight”; “Up On Cripple Creek”), and soundtrack composer (Martin Scorsese films), dies of prostate cancer at 80 [1] [2]
- 2023 Brice Marden, American painter (Grove Group, Moss Sutra With the Seasons), dies of cancer at 84 [1]
- 2023 Fernando Villavicencio, Ecuadorian journalist, trade unionist, and politician, assassinated by gunfire at close range at 59
- 2023 Ita Ever, Estonian stage, radio, and screen actress (Tayna chyornykh drozdov (The Secret of the Blackbirds)), dies at 92
American businesswoman (CEO of YouTube, 2014-23; Google executive, 1999-2014), considered “the most important person in advertising”, dies of lung cancer at 56
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